Fishing report 01/19
Battle Ground Lake was stocked with 3,000 rainbow trout last week, while Klineline Pond at Salmon Creek Park got 2,200 rainbow. Streamflows in Southwest Washington steelhead fishing waters all were on...
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Spring chinook shortfall threatens N. Lewis restoration
State, tribal and federal fishery officials, along with PacifiCorp, will decide in the next month or two whether to suspend temporarily efforts to rebuild a population of spring chinook salmon in the...
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Gifford Pinchot snow report 2/2
Mount St. Helens — Forty-two inches at Cougar Sno-Park. Road No. 83 is blocked by a slide just beyond Cougar Sno-Park, making Marble Mountain Sno-Park inaccessible. Cougar only has room to park about a...
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Legislation would allow citizen euthanization of limping elk
Legislation has been introduced into the Washington state Senate to allow hunting license holders, landowners and tribal members to euthanize elk with a severe limp without regard to season dates,...
View ArticleGifford Pinchot National Forest snow report 2/9
Wind River — Wind River road No. 30 is closed at Carson National Fish Hatchery due to deep snow, making Oldman Pass, Koshko, McClellan Meadows and Lone Butte sno-parks inaccessible. The road is not...
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Forest Service asks visitors to treat Ape Cave with TLC
The popularity of Mount St. Helens as a tourist destination, combined with its proximity to the Seattle and Portland areas, make the Ape Cave a well-known and well-trodden feature of the area. But with...
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Pine Creek station’s 30 years celebrated
PINE CREEK STATION — More than 60 current and former Pine Creek employees attended the 30th anniversary of the Pine Creek station on Saturday. In the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument area,...
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Keeping an eye on volcanoes
A dozen scientists from around the world are in Vancouver to learn about monitoring hazardous volcanoes. On Wednesday, that actually meant learning about batteries and solar panels. After all, you...
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Committee to hear Spirit Lake strategy
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will discuss the long-term management of the Spirit Lake and Toutle River system during a two-day committee meeting next week at the Red Lion...
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Mount St. Helens shakes 120 times within a week
In less than a week, four swarms of more than 120 earthquakes shook Mount St. Helens in late November. Although they were too small to be felt even by someone standing directly over their epicenters,...
View ArticlePhotos were of conjoined porpoises
In the cold waters of the North Sea, trawlers catch all manner of unintended things. Garbage, often. Porpoises, sometimes. But on May 30, several nautical miles off the Hook of Holland, a boat hauled...
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Grays seals make comeback in Mass.
Gray seals are booming. They’ve flocked to coastal Massachusetts, where hunters once killed the animals wholesale — a dead seal’s nose could fetch a $5 reward in the 1960s. Twenty years ago, there were...
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Drowning wildebeests benefit river ecosystem
African wildebeests are like clueless couples that get hacked to pieces in horror movies. Time after time, year aft er year, giant herds of the animals creep to the edge of the Mara River in Kenya and...
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Scientists trawl ocean floor, find scary creatures, lots of garbage
Two-and-a-half miles below the ocean near Australia, there is crushing pressure, total darkness and a collection of some of the strangest creatures on the planet — if you’re willing to go find them....
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Wildfire soot found on glaciers
For the first time, scientists have tracked soot from Canadian wildfires all the way to the Greenland ice sheet where the dark, sunlight-absorbing particles landed on the ice and had the potential to...
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Coral crisis eases; reefs still at risk of bleaching
WASHINGTON — A mass bleaching of coral reefs worldwide is finally easing after three years, U.S. scientists announced Monday. About three-quarters of the world’s delicate coral reefs were damaged or...
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Mount St. Helens: Reid Blackburn and an array of equipment were lost; a...
Columbian photographer Reid Blackburn made a slight revision to the cover of his notebook that explained his role on Mount St. Helens 36 years ago. In a spot for his contact information, Blackburn...
View ArticlePark rangers lead Mount St. Helens programs
State park rangers are leading a series of programs, including some that focus on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, at two adjacent sites just east of Interstate 5 near Castle Rock. The summer...
View ArticleSpirit Lake study committee selected
MOUNT ST. HELENS — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine chose a 10-person committee to develop a decision-making framework related to the long-term management of the Spirit...
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Forest Service asks visitors to treat Ape Cave with TLC
The popularity of Mount St. Helens as a tourist destination, combined with its proximity to the Seattle and Portland areas, make the Ape Cave a well-known and well-trodden feature of the area. But with...
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